Madeleine Sami

Actor/musician Madeleine Sami won international acclaim starring in two Toa Fraser plays: 1998's Bare and solo show No 2. Aged 18, she debuted on screen on Shortland Street and Pio. Following Insiders Guide to Happiness, she was the romantic interest in Sione's Wedding. Sami went on to win an NZ acting award for her show Super City, in which she plays multiple characters, from a gym instructor to an Iranian immigrant. She co-wrote and created the show with Thomas Sainsbury. In 2017 she began production of movie The Breaker Upperers, which she co-wrote, co-directed and co-starred in with Jackie van Beek.

I had lines like ‘They've got catapults!’ or ‘There's a shark!' or ‘We're all gonna die!' I'm barely in it. But I don't die. I'm one of the only Amazonians that doesn't die.
Madeleine Sami on acting in Xena: Warrior Princess